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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Most people agree to submit a 34 ACT or 1500+ SAT. Also AP scores if you have them. If you are at a private that doesn’t offer the AP courses but can still take the AP exam and do well-even better, esp at OOS flagships.

Lots of rumination by top colleges about their testing policies going forward-listen to Dartmouth and Yale podcasts. It is universally agreed that test scores help validate a strong GPA and if you aren’t in a preferred category (URM, FGLI, athlete or legacy) it can only help
To have that piece of the puzzle. [b]For the few who make it into a top 25 school without them-those are the unicorns[/b]. [/quote]

You do realize that for schools with sub-10 % acceptance rates, unhooked students who submit test scores and get in are also unicorns![/quote]

According to the Common Data Set:
28% of enrolled didn’t submit scores to Stanford  
15% of enrolled didn’t submit scores to Princeton
19% of enrolled didn’t submit scores to Brown
17% of enrolled didn’t submit scores to Harvard
40% of enrolled didn’t submit scores to Cornell

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At nearly all these schools, the number of hooked students exceeds test optional students by a decent margin [/quote]

40% of Cornell is not hooked[/quote]

Do you know what “nearly all” means.  Cornell is test blind for three of its undergraduate schools and therefore an outlier.[/quote]

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